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The green children of Woolpit.
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The green children of Woolpit. Sometime, at the end of the 12th century, Ralph of Coggeshall and William of Newburgh wrote how two children with green skin arrived in the village of Woolpit one summer. Ralph was abbot at Coggeshall monastery and William was a canon in Yorkshire. They tell…
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The Extraordinary – ( Freddy Jackson Ghost)
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The Extraordinary – ( Freddy Jackson Ghost) This is the story of Freddy Jackson Ghost. This intriguing story of a photo, taken in 1919, was first published in 1975 by Sir Victor Goddard, a retired R.A.F. officer. The photo is a group portrait of Goddard’s squadron, which had served in…
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A little but more greek art by the late Peter Connoly. Here its two pieces from myth of Thesseus. The first shows Thesseus killing the minotaur in labyrinth in crete .
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Thesseus is wearing a classic mycenean kilt and boots , while he was a bronze dagger in his right hand . The other piece of art shows Thesseus departing Athens and going to crete . The ship is a classic mycenean/mioan ship . The famous Black sails from the myth…
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This is a bit wicked so please brace yourself…. 😲
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LIFE With Mike the Headless Chicken: Photos of a Famously Tough Fowl No, it’s not the latest eye-popping item from the always entertaining Weekly World News. Instead, it’s an actual headline from the October 22, 1945, issue of LIFE magazine, above an article about … well, a headless chicken: “Beheaded…
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Videos appear to show Israeli soldiers abusing bound and blindfolded Palestinian detainees
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In a graphic scene, a group of detainees lie on the ground. Some are naked. An Israeli soldier can be seen stomping on the head of a Palestinian man, who covers his face with his bound hands. TEL AVIV — Several videos have emerged on social media appearing to show…
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On ThisDay 21 September 1942, ‘The Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto’ ended.
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On ThisDay 21 September 1942, ‘The Great Deportation from the Warsaw Ghetto’ ended. During this 2 month period over 265,000 Jews were crammed into sealed freight trains and deported to the Treblinka death camp, where they were murdered. Recalling the Great Deportation, Holocaust survivor Chaim Kaplan recounts in his diary:…
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Nordhausen (Germany)
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Nordhausen was a sub-camp of the concentration camp Dora-Mittelbau. This camp was created by the SS for prisoners too weak or too ill to work in the tunnels of Dora on the fabrication of the German V1 and V2 rockets. Following the Nazi terminology, Nordhausen was a “Vernichtungslager”, an extermination…
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Photo series – Intimate moments of soldiers during the world wars Until now, Michael Stokes has published eight books on a similar topic: photographs of men, sometimes with a slight sexual, erotic charge. He is also planning two books for 2020, one of which is entitled My Naked Soldier and is a…
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The Liberation of Dachau.
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Today marks the 71st anniversary of The Liberation of Dachau. Oklahoma has strong ties to that day through the incredible efforts of the 45th Infantry Division. The 45th Infantry Division was formed in 1923 from elements of the National Guards of four states; Oklahoma, Colorado, Arizona and New Mexico. Following…